Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins Brawls His Way To Overcome Murat

[619 southpaw]

He wasnt biased for Bhop, he was just frustrated that Murat kept initiating the dirty fighting the entire fight. He was the one kept hitting while holding, never listened to the ref, hit Hoppa while he was on the ground. I actually didnt see Bhop do anything too dirty tonight. I saw him get mad and get even, but I didnt see too many headbutts

i was going for hop but lets be real how many times have you seen a ref shoving a fighter that many times? hop initiated most of that stuff kissing and all that *****. you could tell smoger was wit hop from the jump

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

When I'm 48 I want to be like Bernard. I already eat healthy and work out, just need to work out a little more and cut the alcohol.

i feel u man, its all in the routine and sticking too it!! b hop looked good but fought dirty as hell but not as dirty as wlad and unlike wlad he actually FOUGHT at certain points of the fight and didnt just hold and push

[hitking]

B-Hop needs to quit looking down the scale. He needs to start looking up it. I assume they're gonna hand Deontay Wilder Vitali's belt here sooner or later. And I think B-Hop should go after him. Wilder is a very emotional and unskilled kid. B-Hop would have that kid mentally unglued before the opening bell and box his ears off every second after it.

[swifty007]

Very entertaining fight!! Murat got pressed by a 48 year old. But like the poster above stated he would NOT fight Stevenson or Kovalev like that.

[MurkaMan]

i was going for hop but lets be real how many times have you seen a ref shoving a fighter that many times? hop initiated most of that stuff kissing and all that *****. you could tell smoger was wit hop from the jump

Hop didnt do any of that stuff until later on after Murat started being a jerk, and I HATE hop. Hop kissing him is NOT the same as Murat's dirty fighting, hitting when the ref constantly says stop, hitting hopkins when he's on the canvas. Smoger was letting him get away with it a little, then Murat started being too blatant with his fouling. And I dont think I seen Hopkins do any dirty fighting to be honest. He came to fight tonight, no complaining, no cheating, just brawling.

[NearHypnos]

i was going for hop but lets be real how many times have you seen a ref shoving a fighter that many times? hop initiated most of that stuff kissing and all that *****. you could tell smoger was wit hop from the jump

He two pieced B Hop while down. Constantly gave his back, was blatantly throwing behind the head. Even had a big low blow (a few) in the 12th and Smoger disnt start shoving til later as Murat was not breaking. He was just too blatant about it. B Hop was actually not AS bad and he keeps his ish on the low. Doesnt blatatly smack a dude after the break or two piece a guy who had been down for like two seconds. It was so bad Bernar saw the punches coming and started to block lol. We've seen dudes DQed for less. All things considered Smoger let Murat work and do mostly what he wanted. You know youre doing something wrong when frickin SMOGER shoves you. I think he even screamed at him and was like "stop with the bulls hit!" Or something lol

[Hougigo]

ONe of his better fights in the twilight years, but jesus is Murat bad

[Nomadic]

Old man age is showing, but great win...lol

[BoxingJunkie]

smoger is funny man. super biased

I couldn't disagree with you more. Smoger had ample opportunities to take an additional point, especially at the very end when Murat decides to turn billy goat with his forehead but he showed restraint. Hopkins wasn't an angel in this fight either but Murat REPEATEDLY kept hitting when the ref was separating them. I believe that 95% of the refs in the game today would have taken a minimum of 2 points from Murat before the night was over.

[BoxingJunkie]

ONe of his better fights in the twilight years, but jesus is Murat bad

I can't fathom how you possibly feel that Murat is "bad" True, he is not an elite fighter at 175 but he is far from bad. He put on a great fight against Hopkins, much better that most people expected. He hit Hopkins with some really clean shots throughout the fight. He did much more than what anyone had expected of him.